Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?
“You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.”
McKinsey Quarterly interview with Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman and psychologist Gary Klein

Addressing executive swoop-ins
“Don’t tell your team ‘The boss wants us to do this, so I guess we have to do it’.”
Written by Julie Zhuo, VP Product Design at Facebook

10 Principles of Strategic Leadership
“Most companies have leaders with the strong operational skills needed to maintain the status quo. But they face a critical deficit: They lack people in positions of power with the know-how, experience, and confidence required to tackle what management scientists call ‘wicked problems’.”
Written by Jessica Leitch, David Lancefield, and Mark Dawson

Just for fun

The power of believing you can improveA TED talk by Carol Dweck on growth mindset – something that Ben Congleton, our Heartbeat guest, mentioned. Carol’s talk has been watched almost 7 million times.